Inmate Hanged in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan

On Monday, October 13, an inmate who had previously been sentenced to death on a charge of murder was executed in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, the executed inmate has been identified as Ismail Ghassabi.

The most recent report of the Statistics and Publication Center of the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) states that between October 8 of 2020 and October 9 of 2021, at least 266 citizens were executed and 90 citizens were sentenced to death.

As the report points out, Iran’s judicial authorities do not publicly announce over 82% of carried-out executions, dubbed as “secret executions” by human rights organizations.

Ghassabi’s execution has not been announced by official sources in Iran as of this writing.